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I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.

Bob Schaffer

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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Ago Football Games Long
I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.
BOB SCHAFFER

Art Foundation Writing
Parents don’t like it, administrators don’t like it, and kids don’t like it, but politicians and bureaucrats in Washington love it–which should be the first indication to you that it is a troubled program.
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Administration Parent Problem Trouble
But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
BOB SCHAFFER

Literature Past People
There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
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Hands Touching Voters
One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
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Kindness Peaceful Prayer
They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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Life Literature Mean
My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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Cancer People Thinking
I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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Jobs Literature Thinking
Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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Accounts Newspapers Persons
The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
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Agency News Ukraine
One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I’m interested in? Is it something I enjoy?
BOB SCHAFFER

Fun Mind People
It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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Government Impossible Unlikely
Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
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Answers Literature Trying
A police reporter walks into the worst moment in someone’s life on every single story that he covers. It’s not like being a sports reporter. That’s a great job and all that and takes certain skills.
BOB SCHAFFER

Football Jobs Sports
Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander’s boss to get that changed.
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Boss Decision Thinking

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